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WeFarm Has Seen Up to 5,000 User Sign-Ups in One Hour

Kenny Ewan · 645: WeFarm Helps 140k Off-Grid Farmers Learn Faster, $1.7M Raised, 90% Still Active After 3 Months with CEO Kenny Ewan · Apr 30, 2017 · at 6:02

Kenny Ewan is the CEO of WeFarm, an SMS-based network for off-grid smallholder farmers. He explains user acquisition via radio broadcast partnerships.

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“Four, maybe 5000 people is our record for one hour.”

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Ewan: 500M Offline Farmers Produce 70% of World's Food
“Five hundred million farmers without internet, but supplying 70% of the world's food”
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Ewan: WeFarm sees 85% to 90% three-month user retention
“About 85, 90% of people are still using the platform three months after, after they sign up.”
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Disclosure
WeFarm Plans Monetization Through Data and Marketplace Commissions
“For us, it's about growing a massive volume of people using our product and using it regularly, and we'll look to monetize on the back of that. But that'll be in two principal ways. One is through the data that we generate.”
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Assertion Supported
WeFarm Closed a $1.7 Million Seed Round
“So we just closed our seed round for about 1.7 million dollars.”
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Ewan: WeFarm has reached roughly 140,000 farmers
“So that's about a 140,000 farmers now.”
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Ewan: Roughly 35% of WeFarm users actively contribute knowledge
“People that actively contribute knowledge, which for us averages about 35% of all users actively contribute”
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